VOA慢速英語：巴西足球運動員客機在哥倫比亞墜機

Plane Carrying Football Team From Brazil Crashes in Colombia

巴西足球運動員客機在哥倫比亞墜機

At least 76 people were killed when an airplane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed Monday night in Colombia.

本周一晚間，載有巴西足球運動員客機在哥倫比價墜機，造成至少76人死亡。

A Colombian police commander said five of the 81 people on the chartered plane survived. The aircraft was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members.

哥倫比亞警方指揮官表示包機上的81人中，只有5人獲救。該飛機攜帶乘客72人、9名機組人員。

The team was on its way to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana football competition at the time of the crash. The sport is called soccer in the United States.

該足球隊在去往南美杯足球決賽的路上，墜機。該運動在美國叫做soccer。

The plane came down in a mountainous area near the city of Medellin. The flight had started in Bolivia.

該飛機在麥德林市附近的山區(qū)墜落。該飛機是從玻利維亞起飛。

The aircraft’s owner was identified as LaMia, a small Venezuelan airline company. Officials said the plane, a British Aerospace 146, was designed for short flights. The crew reported an electrical failure and declared an emergency at 2200 hours local time (0300 GMT).

該飛機隸屬于拉米爾，一個小型委內(nèi)瑞拉的航空公司。官方稱：該飛機是一臺BAe146，專為短航線設(shè)計。機組報告了電氣故障并在當?shù)貢r間22點(格林威治時間3點)宣布進入緊急狀態(tài)。

Colombian officials are investigating what happened. The head of the country’s civil aviation agency said he cannot rule out the possibility that the plane used up all its fuel before the crash.

哥倫比亞官方正在調(diào)查原因。國家民航機構(gòu)的領(lǐng)導表示：他將不排除一種可能性，飛機在墜機之前已用盡燃料。

The plane was carrying the Chapecoense football team, from the small city of Chapeco in southern Brazil. Chapecoense was to have played Wednesday in the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin.

該飛機攜沙佩科恩斯足球隊從南非的一個小城市沙佩科出發(fā)。。沙佩科恩斯隊本應于周三參加南美杯決賽兩回合比賽的首輪比賽，同麥德林國民競技隊進行較量

The mayor of Chapeco said he and other officials just missed joining the team and reporters on the flight to Colombia. They instead decided to take a commercialairline flight.

沙佩科市長表示，他和其他官員恰巧錯過了同球員和記者一起飛往哥倫比亞。他們轉(zhuǎn)而決定乘坐商業(yè)航班前往。

I’m Christopher Jones-Cruise.

克里斯托弗·瓊斯克魯斯報道。